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Bio-inspired Fabrication of Cu-Ni Coatings onto Mercerized Flax Fabric by Electroless Plating

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This research mainly prepared a bio-friendly electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding fabric, and discussed the influence of the grammage (i.e. 120 g/m2, 160 g/m2 and 210 g/m2, etc) of fabric substrate on the preparation of metal-based EMI shielding conductive fabric by electroless plating. A series of steps involved mercerization, dopamine (DoPA) modification, Ni0 seeding and electroless copper-nickel (Cu-Ni) plating were carried out to fabricate ideal EMI shielding fabric. The prepared Cu-Ni fabric endowed relatively high EMI shielding effectiveness (SE) (34.80-42.00 dB) ranging from 30 to 4500 MHz, which made it a huge potential in the field of wearable EMI shielding. Moreover, another discovery was that a relative higher grammage may lead to a lower total metal loading. Furthermore, Fourier transformation infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) measurements were conducted to verify the introduction of functional groups in mercerization, modification and activation procedures. The crystalline phases and morphologies of resulting Cu-Ni coatings were characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD) and field emission-scanning electron microscopy (FE-SEM) measurements. The atomic ratio (at.%) of Cu and Ni in the sample was determined by Energy Dispersive X-ray Spectroscopy (EDX) measurements. Overall, the Cu-Ni alloy fabric prepared in this research met the requirements of health, coating lining and EMI shielding.

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. U1830108), the research grant (No. 17DZ1202300) from Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality, the Innovation Foundation of Shanghai Aerospace Science and Technology (No. SAST2018-061), the exploratory research project of “Yanchang Petroleum (Group)-Fudan University” and the basic research program (No. TC2018JC05) of Taicang Science and Technology Commission Foundation.

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    Lin Zhu, Hang Zhao, Lei Hou, Siyi Bi, Yumeng Xu & Yinxiang Lu

  2. Taicang Biqi New Materials Research and Development Inc., Suzhou, 215431, Jiangsu Province, China

    Bijian Lan & Yinxiang Lu

  3. Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, California, 94720, USA

    Lei Hou

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Zhu, L., Zhao, H., Lan, B. et al. Bio-inspired Fabrication of Cu-Ni Coatings onto Mercerized Flax Fabric by Electroless Plating. Fibers Polym 21, 324–333 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12221-020-9223-2

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